Born: Innsbruck, Austria, 1975
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education and Teaching
2004-2005 Postgraduate Studies - École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France
1999-2000 Bezalel University, Jerusalem, Isreal
1995–2001 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
1993–1995 University of Innsbruck, Austria
Teaching:
Since 2014, Professorship at Art Academy in Trondheim (KiT)of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway
1999-2000 Bezalel University, Jerusalem, Isreal
1995–2001 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
1993–1995 University of Innsbruck, Austria
Teaching:
Since 2014, Professorship at Art Academy in Trondheim (KiT)of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway
Exhibitions, Festivals and Screenings
2018
Trondheim Electronic Arts Center, Trondheim, Norway (solo)
BesucherInnenschule, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2016
Border Act, Kunstpavillon – Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
Green light – Shared learning – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2014
RLB Kunstpreis 2014, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
J’En Veux Plus, Toujours Plus! /// And I Still Want More!, Galerie Thomas Henry Ross, Montreal, Canada
Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands – Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2013
AGORA, 4TH Athens Biennale, Greece
Collectivity Matters, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
Human Hotel Copenhagen, Wooloo Project in Skt.Kjelds Kvarter Copenhagen, Denmark
Arttirol – Kunstankäufe des Landes Tirol 2010 – 2013 – Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
2012
7. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst – Forget Fear – 3. Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, KW Berlin, Germany
Produktive Anordnungen, Premierentage 2012, Innsbruck, Austria
Sinopale 4 – Sinopale, International Sinop Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Kunstpeis 2012, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
Beutezüge. Systeme des Eigennutzes – Mechanismen der Plünderung, Open Space Wien, Vienna, Austria
Berliner Zimmer – Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrad, Serbia
2011
Berliner Zimmer, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Berliner Zimmer, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bukarest, Romania
Berliner Zimmer, MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Schattendorf Biennale, ….from erewhon to here knows when…. – Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria
2010
Manifesta 8, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain
Die Welt als Kulisse – Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Der Drang nach Osten – HIT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Transient Spaces – The tourist Syndrome – Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Transient Spaces - The Tourist Syndrome, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
Transient Spaces- The Tourist Syndrome, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Let’s Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
e-flux video rental – Fondazione Giuliani, Rom, Italy
Celebration! Uqbar’s 3rd Anniversary Exhibition – Uqbar, Berlin, Germany
2009
The house is on fire, but the show must go on, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
The Renaming Machine – Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
Comunidad Fictica – M100 – Centro Culturtal Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
(im)migrants with(in) – Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria
2008
Other than Yourself – An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
e-flux Video Rental / 1st Floor of the Foundation central building, Centro de Arte Moderna - CAM, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon, Portogal
Am Sprung, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
Art Award 2008, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
BB3 – Parallel Events, Bucharest International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Romania
On Xenophobia Redux, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
On Xenophobia Redux, Open Space, Vienna, Austria
2007
Inquiry Into Reality: Disappearance Of Public Space, – Press To Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia
Globale07, documentary film festival, Berlin, Germany
2006
KÜBA: Journey against the Current – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Canetti House, Rousse – Bulgaria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad – Serbia
Vukovar City Museum, Vukovar, Croatia
Ethnographic Museum, Budapest, Hungary
TRANZIT, Bratislava, Slovakia
Nestroyhof, Vienna, Austria
It is hard to touch the real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Inquiry into Reality: The Disappearance of Public Space – Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrad, Serbia
Economy Class, Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, Kenya
2005
Shrinking Cities, Interventions, GfZK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
UTOPIE : FREIHEIT, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
ID Troubles – US Visit, NURTUREart Gallery and Emerging Curators’ Resource Center, New York, USA
E-flux Video Rental (curated selection), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Projet: Cis 4, Galerie rue Mongrand, Marseille, France
Rallye Bar, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The War Room, Galerie 35 (solo show), Berlin, Germany
2004
DEAF04, V2 Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Alterity Display, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Fly Utopia, Transmediale 04, Berlin, Germany
Values, 11th Biennial of Visual Arts – Pančevo Biennial, Pančevo, Serbia
Hilchot Shchenim –chapter B, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Isreal
It is hard to touch the real, 2nd Videofestival, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
VideoMedeja, 8th International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Radical Positioning, Pavel Haus, Laafeld, Austria
Interventionen gegen Rassismen, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Under the bridge, Exhibition project, Belgrade, Serbia
2003
Bandits-Mages, International Video Festival, Bourges, France
Beyond the map – constructing narratives (solo show), la Box, Bourges, France
2002
Erfrischungen, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
Realisation of the project UTOPIA TRAVEL (Danesch/ Rych): Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Espace SD Beirut, Sea Elephant Travel Agency /the Loft Istanbul, Apartment project Istanbul, XXL-Gallery Sofia, SKC Belgrade, so.ba café SCCA Sarajevo, net.culture club mama Zagreb, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Menza pri koritu Club/ Metelkova Mesto Ljubljana
Association for Contemporary Art Graz, Austria
SECESSION. Vienna, Austria
2001
Das Experiment 3 – UTOPIA TRAVEL, SECESSION, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2000
hEXPO – International Festival of Self-Organizing Cultural Forms, Ljublijana/ Maribor/ Koper
transpackaging, Minoriten Galerie, Graz, Austria
1999
Aufbau: Providers, 1822 Forum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Kunst auf der Baustelle/Modebus - time scan 1, Museumsquartier – MQ, Vienna, Austria
1998
Parkplatz, Generali Foundation Vitrine, Vienna, Austria
Academies, Spices & Diversities, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
1997
Lightbulbdelight – Video Art Festival, G.U.N., Oslo, Norway
01, Galerie im Andechshof Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
Trondheim Electronic Arts Center, Trondheim, Norway (solo)
BesucherInnenschule, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2016
Border Act, Kunstpavillon – Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
Green light – Shared learning – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2014
RLB Kunstpreis 2014, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, Germany
J’En Veux Plus, Toujours Plus! /// And I Still Want More!, Galerie Thomas Henry Ross, Montreal, Canada
Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Die Ästhetik des Widerstands – Galerie IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2013
AGORA, 4TH Athens Biennale, Greece
Collectivity Matters, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
Human Hotel Copenhagen, Wooloo Project in Skt.Kjelds Kvarter Copenhagen, Denmark
Arttirol – Kunstankäufe des Landes Tirol 2010 – 2013 – Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
2012
7. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst – Forget Fear – 3. Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, KW Berlin, Germany
Produktive Anordnungen, Premierentage 2012, Innsbruck, Austria
Sinopale 4 – Sinopale, International Sinop Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Kunstpeis 2012, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
Beutezüge. Systeme des Eigennutzes – Mechanismen der Plünderung, Open Space Wien, Vienna, Austria
Berliner Zimmer – Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrad, Serbia
2011
Berliner Zimmer, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Berliner Zimmer, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bukarest, Romania
Berliner Zimmer, MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Schattendorf Biennale, ….from erewhon to here knows when…. – Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria
2010
Manifesta 8, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain
Die Welt als Kulisse – Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Der Drang nach Osten – HIT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Transient Spaces – The tourist Syndrome – Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Transient Spaces - The Tourist Syndrome, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
Transient Spaces- The Tourist Syndrome, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
Let’s Talk About Nationalism! Between Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
e-flux video rental – Fondazione Giuliani, Rom, Italy
Celebration! Uqbar’s 3rd Anniversary Exhibition – Uqbar, Berlin, Germany
2009
The house is on fire, but the show must go on, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
The Renaming Machine – Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
Comunidad Fictica – M100 – Centro Culturtal Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
(im)migrants with(in) – Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria
2008
Other than Yourself – An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
e-flux Video Rental / 1st Floor of the Foundation central building, Centro de Arte Moderna - CAM, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lissabon, Portogal
Am Sprung, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
Art Award 2008, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck, Austria
BB3 – Parallel Events, Bucharest International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Romania
On Xenophobia Redux, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
On Xenophobia Redux, Open Space, Vienna, Austria
2007
Inquiry Into Reality: Disappearance Of Public Space, – Press To Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia
Globale07, documentary film festival, Berlin, Germany
2006
KÜBA: Journey against the Current – T-B A21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Canetti House, Rousse – Bulgaria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad – Serbia
Vukovar City Museum, Vukovar, Croatia
Ethnographic Museum, Budapest, Hungary
TRANZIT, Bratislava, Slovakia
Nestroyhof, Vienna, Austria
It is hard to touch the real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Inquiry into Reality: The Disappearance of Public Space – Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrad, Serbia
Economy Class, Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, Kenya
2005
Shrinking Cities, Interventions, GfZK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
UTOPIE : FREIHEIT, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
ID Troubles – US Visit, NURTUREart Gallery and Emerging Curators’ Resource Center, New York, USA
E-flux Video Rental (curated selection), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Projet: Cis 4, Galerie rue Mongrand, Marseille, France
Rallye Bar, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The War Room, Galerie 35 (solo show), Berlin, Germany
2004
DEAF04, V2 Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Alterity Display, Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Fly Utopia, Transmediale 04, Berlin, Germany
Values, 11th Biennial of Visual Arts – Pančevo Biennial, Pančevo, Serbia
Hilchot Shchenim –chapter B, Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Isreal
It is hard to touch the real, 2nd Videofestival, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
VideoMedeja, 8th International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Radical Positioning, Pavel Haus, Laafeld, Austria
Interventionen gegen Rassismen, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Under the bridge, Exhibition project, Belgrade, Serbia
2003
Bandits-Mages, International Video Festival, Bourges, France
Beyond the map – constructing narratives (solo show), la Box, Bourges, France
2002
Erfrischungen, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
Realisation of the project UTOPIA TRAVEL (Danesch/ Rych): Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Espace SD Beirut, Sea Elephant Travel Agency /the Loft Istanbul, Apartment project Istanbul, XXL-Gallery Sofia, SKC Belgrade, so.ba café SCCA Sarajevo, net.culture club mama Zagreb, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Menza pri koritu Club/ Metelkova Mesto Ljubljana
Association for Contemporary Art Graz, Austria
SECESSION. Vienna, Austria
2001
Das Experiment 3 – UTOPIA TRAVEL, SECESSION, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2000
hEXPO – International Festival of Self-Organizing Cultural Forms, Ljublijana/ Maribor/ Koper
transpackaging, Minoriten Galerie, Graz, Austria
1999
Aufbau: Providers, 1822 Forum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Kunst auf der Baustelle/Modebus - time scan 1, Museumsquartier – MQ, Vienna, Austria
1998
Parkplatz, Generali Foundation Vitrine, Vienna, Austria
Academies, Spices & Diversities, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
1997
Lightbulbdelight – Video Art Festival, G.U.N., Oslo, Norway
01, Galerie im Andechshof Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
Awards / Nominations
2011 Austrian Government Scholarship - Media and Video Art
2008 Award for Contemporary Art Tirol, Austria
2008 Art Award 2008, RLB Kunstbrücke, Austria
2004 College Invisible, ESBAM, France
2001 Emanuel und Sofie Fohn Scholarship, Austria
2008 Award for Contemporary Art Tirol, Austria
2008 Art Award 2008, RLB Kunstbrücke, Austria
2004 College Invisible, ESBAM, France
2001 Emanuel und Sofie Fohn Scholarship, Austria